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Eugenics, natalism, and white nationalism

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 à 00:05

The connections between eugenics, natalism and white nationalism are becoming concrete and detectable through an event which brings them together.

Handing medical records to officials without warrants.

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 à 00:05

CVS, Kroger and Rite Aid pharmacies allow pharmacy staff to hand over customers’ medical records to officials, without a warrant.

These records can show, for instance, whether you had an abortion, even in another state. Prosecutors can get the data in their own state, or in some other state which gives customers weaker legal protections.

Even if a company insisted on a warrant before handing over your data, that is not sufficient to uphold your rights, because a warrant for the company is not the same thing as a warrant for you.

If a warrant demands you hand over your data, you will know about it and you can challenge its validity in court. If a company receives a warrant to hand over your data, the company could challenge the warrant's validity, but a company whose main goal is wealth is not likely to care. It would hand over your data and not tell you.

Activist jailed

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 à 00:05

*Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months [by the UK for participating in an inconvenient but peaceful protest.]*

Other protesters demanded a trial and were exonerated by the jury. It seems that pleading guilty is a mistake.

Overcharging anonymous customers

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 à 00:05

Some British supermarkets charge over 10% more to anonymous customers. A spokesman claims that one of them protects personal data "incredibly carefully", but apparently that is not true all the time, because of the time it is selling that very data to third parties.

It should be illegal for a store to charge different prices to customers depending on whether they identify themselves and/or hand over demanded personal data.

Israeli settlers terrorize Palestinians

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 à 00:05

*Government [of Australia] joins more than a dozen countries to say settlers are "terrorising" Palestinians in "unacceptable" violence.*

Thank you Australia for recognizing this.

*American citizens have been at the forefront of the rise of settler violence in the occupied territories, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, but as US passport holders they cannot be barred from [going to the US].*

It seems to me that these crimes call for a response that goes beyond barring them from returning to the US. That response by itself won't have much effect on them. Can the US prosecute them for violent hatred and violations of human rights, committed outside the US?